Why Not Just Another Recess Appointment? -- Anti-Fracking Nominee Dropped

Link here.

“But the fact that you come in as an activist with an extreme position is just more of the same in the administration, in every little corner of government,” said Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK).

President Obama will abandon the nomination of Rebecca Wodder as assistant secretary for the Interior Department’s park and wildlife programs, ending a tumultuous six-month battle with Senate lawmakers.

Wodder, who served as CEO of the conservation group American Rivers, was strongly opposed by several Republicans and at least one Democrat over her past statements on hydraulic fracturing, mountaintop-removal coal mining, Clean Water Act regulations and the removal of dams in the Pacific Northwest.

Absolutely incredible the folks this administration nominates for important positions. 

I assume she will leave behind her PowerPoint presentation on the definition of "diesel" for the next nominee. Her definition of diesel, I assume, is "any product containing carbon, hydrogen, or both, and used in the fracking process."